Allen George https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/allengeorge/feed.xml Edging SharePoint Wed, 17 Apr 2019 03:45:50 GMT en-US hourly 1 HTTP 500 Internal Server Error https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/allengeorge/http-500-internal-server-error Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:49:29 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/allengeorge/2013/10/23/http-500-internal-server-error/ Symptoms

Users receive an error 'HTTP 500 Internal Server Error' while trying to
browse to a SharePoint site using Claims-based authentication. We see the
following error message under the event viewer on the SharePoint server

Log Name            :  Application
Source                :  Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Foundation
Date                :  <Date and Time>
Event ID              :  8305
Task Category     :  Claims Authentication
Level                  :  Error
Keywords:     
User                   :  domain\username
Computer           :  <servername>
Description         : An exception occurred when trying to establish endpoint for context: An error occurred loading a configuration file: Either a required impersonation level was not provided, or the provided impersonation level is
invalid.
 (C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\Config\machine.config).
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
 <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-SharePoint
Products-SharePoint Foundation" Guid="{6fb7e0cd-52e7-47dd-997a-241563931fc2}" />
    <EventID>8305</EventID>
 
<Version>14</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
   
<Task>47</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
   
<Keywords>0x4000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="Date and Time7Z" />
   
<EventRecordID>11820</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation ActivityID="{1160D9F3-DFB6-414A-A765-58C78EB5170E}" />
    <Execution ProcessID="5948" ThreadID="4908" />
   
<Channel>Application</Channel>
   
<Computer>ServerName</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-448539723-1767777339-1801674531-1648" />
 
</System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="string0">An error occurred loading a configuration file: Either a required impersonation level was not provided, or the provided impersonation level is invalid.
 (C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\Config\machine.config)</Data>
 
</EventData>
</Event>

We also noted that if we direct the
requests to another server in the farm, we are able to access the
site.

 

Cause

Application pool account was missing the "Impersonate a client after authentication" user right
 
 

Resolution

1. Go to Start - Administrative tools - Local Security
Policy - Local Policies - User Right Assignments - Impersonate a client after
authentication properties
2. Add the Application Pool account for the site
which is not working
3. Reboot the server, so the changes can take effect
4. Browse the site and it should work fine
 
 

More Information

Get the following error message under the SharePoint ULS LOGS


<Date and Time>  w3wp.exe (0x173C) 0x14AC SharePoint Foundation
Claims Authentication fsq6 High Get trust client failed with exception:
System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: An error occurred loading a
configuration file: Either a required impersonation level was not provided, or
the provided impersonation level is invalid.
(C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\Config\machine.config) --->
System.IO.IOException: Either a required impersonation level was not provided,
or the provided impersonation level is invalid. at
System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath) at
System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32
rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions
options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy) at
System.IO.FileStream..ctor(Strin...

<Date and Time>  w3wp.exe 
(0x173C) 0x14AC SharePoint Foundation Claims Authentication fsq6 High ...g path,
FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions
options, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy) at
System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access,
FileShare share) at
System.Configuration.Internal.InternalConfigHost.StaticOpenStreamForRead(String
streamName) at
System.Configuration.Internal.InternalConfigHost.System.Configuration.Internal.IInternalConfigHost.OpenStreamForRead(String
streamName, Boolean assertPermissions) at
System.Configuration.Internal.InternalConfigHost.System.Configuration.Internal.IInternalConfigHost.OpenStreamForRead(String
streamName) at
System.Configuration.ClientConfigurationHost.OpenStreamForRead(String
streamName) at
System.Configuration.UpdateConfigHost.OpenStreamForRead(Stri...

<Date
and Time>  w3wp.exe (0x173C) 0x14AC SharePoint Foundation Claims
Authentication fsq6 High ...ng streamName) at
System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.FindSection(String[] keys,
SectionXmlInfo sectionXmlInfo, Int32& lineNumber) at
System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.GetSectionXmlReader(String[] keys,
SectionInput input) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at
System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.EvaluateOne(String[] keys,
SectionInput input, Boolean isTrusted, FactoryRecord factoryRecord,
SectionRecord sectionRecord, Object parentResult) at
System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.Evaluate(FactoryRecord
factoryRecord, SectionRecord sectionRecord, Object parentResult, Boolean getLkg,
Boolean getRuntimeObject, Object& result, Object& resultRuntimeObject)
at
System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.GetSectionRecursive(String...

 <Date
and Time>    w3wp.exe (0x173C) 0x14AC SharePoint Foundation Claims
Authentication fsq6 High ... configKey, Boolean getLkg, Boolean checkPermission,
Boolean getRuntimeObject, Boolean requestIsHere, Object& result, Object&
resultRuntimeObject) at
System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.GetSectionRecursive(String
configKey, Boolean getLkg, Boolean checkPermission, Boolean getRuntimeObject,
Boolean requestIsHere, Object& result, Object& resultRuntimeObject) at
System.Configuration.ConfigurationSectionCollection.Get(String name) at
System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ServiceModelSectionGroup.get_Client() at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.Claims.SPSecurityTokenServiceApplication.get_Binding()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurityContext.GetTrustChannel() at
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurityContext.SecurityTokenForContext(Uri context,
Boolean bearerToken, Securit...

<Date and Time>  w3wp.exe (0x173C)
0x14AC SharePoint Foundation Claims Authentication fsq6 High ...yToken
onBehalfOf, SecurityToken actAs, SecurityToken delegateTo)

**** Also creating a web application using Classic auth
mode shows the following error:

An unexpected error has occurred.

Here is the event log entry:

Log Name: Application
Source  : ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0
Date: <Date and
Time>
Event ID: 1309
Task Category: Web Event
Level:
Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
COMPUTER.DOMAIN.NET
Description:
Event code: 3005
Event message: An
unhandled exception has occurred.
Event time: <Date and Time>
Event
time (UTC): <Date and Time>
Event ID: 18355ddcec9343279e3e37f780c0a656

Event sequence: 25
Event occurrence: 2
Event detail code: 0

Application information:
Application domain:
/LM/W3SVC/2034998540/ROOT-1-129551416006053706
Trust level: WSS_Minimal

Application Virtual Path: /
Application Path: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\path

Machine name: TESMPWWB
Process information:
Process ID: 4144

Process name: w3wp.exe
Account name: DOMAIN\APPPOOLACCOUNT
Exception
information:
Exception type: COMException
Exception message: The handle
is invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070006 (E_HANDLE))
Request
information:
Request URL: https://websitename.net/favicon.ico
Request
path: /favicon.ico
User host address: <IP Address>
User:
Is
authenticated: False
Authentication Type:
Thread account name:
DOMAIN\APPPOOLACCOUNT
Thread information:
Thread ID: 12
Thread
account name: DOMAIN\APPPOOLACCOUNT
Is impersonating: False
Stack trace:

]]> Move Copy a Designer Reusable Workflow to a new site farm https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/allengeorge/move-copy-a-designer-reusable-workflow-to-a-new-site-farm Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:55:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/allengeorge/2013/04/17/move-copy-a-designer-reusable-workflow-to-a-new-site-farm/  

SharePoint Designer workflows can be exported to solution files and then imported in a different Site Collection or a different SharePoint Farm. Now they can even be opened in Visual Studio 2010, although it's not a reversible process and once opened in Visual Studio they can't be changed using SharePoint Designer anymore.

  

Our primary goal in this article is to learn how to move SharePoint Designer 2010 workflows across farms and while this feature can be useful in many scenarios, I strongly encourage you as a developer to try to build your workflows in Visual Studio, this is the proper way to implement, distribute and maintain any workflow. 

 

In previous versions the main issue was that these workflows could not be moved across environments. It was not possible to design a workflow in a development platform, then move it to a test environment for testing and finally once accepted deploy it to production, workflows had to be created directly at production and tested from there.

 

Here we are creating a new SharePoint Designer workflow, it has to be a reusable workflow because only those can be then saved as templates. For this demo I just created a workflow that logged a string in the workflow history. Once we have finished with the workflow we save it and we click on the "Save as Template" button on the ribbon bar.

 

 

 

This will generate our Solution .wsp file and save it in the "Site Assets" document library on the current site.

 

 

 

 

 After this the next step is to download a copy of the Solution file and upload it to the other SharePoint Farm where we want to move the workflow to. We navigate to the Solutions gallery and upload the .wsp file, finally we have to activate the solution.

 

 

 

Uploading it to the solutions gallery on the web application present on the new farm –

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once activated, a new feature will appear on the Site Features of all sites in the current Site Collection, we navigate to the Site where we want to use the new workflow and activate that feature.

 

 

 

This feature deploys the workflow to the workflows list and after activating it we would expect to have the new workflow available in the Site Collection.

If we navigate to the Workflows list at the Site Settings page, we should find our workflow here.   

 

 

 

If for some reasons the workflow isn’t listed inside this list, suggest you to open the site in designer and publish the workflow on the new site. This will publish the workflow again in the Site Collection and after we do that it will appear on the workflows list and we will be able to run it and associate it to SharePoint Lists.

 

 

I hope this helps you in moving SharePoint workflows across farms without any issues.

More Information:

Understanding Association Columns - https://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdesigner/archive/2011/05/02/association-columns.aspx

 

]]> Creating Personal Sites for Multiple Users present in UPA https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/allengeorge/creating-personal-sites-for-multiple-users-present-in-upa Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:41:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/allengeorge/2012/08/01/creating-personal-sites-for-multiple-users-present-in-upa/ I was recently working on this case where I had to create multiple personal sites for users within the UPA application.
I got few articles which helped but did not provide me with the correct script.

A loud shout to my colleague Chanchal on assisting me which eventually helped us with the following PS script that would help us all create personal sites for all the users present in your UPA application.
Since most of us face situations where we need multiple personal sites in your farm during research, i have published this post to assist others as well. I hope this helps all.

Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Server")

$mysiteHostUrl = "https://hulk/my/"
$personalSiteGlobalAdmin = "shptgeek\sharepoint"
$personalSiteGlobalAdminNot ="sharepoint@shptgeek.local"
$personalSiteGlobalAdminDisplayName = "Personel Site admin"
$mysite = Get-SPSite $mysiteHostUrl

$context = [Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext]::GetContext($mysite)
$upm =  New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($context)

$AllProfilesCount = $upm.Count

for($i = 1; $i -lt $AllProfilesCount; $i++)
{
$profile = $upm.GetUserProfile($i)

$DisplayName = $profile.DisplayName
$AccountName = $profile[[Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PropertyConstants]::AccountName].Value

$DisplayName
if(!$profile.PersonalSite  )
{
write-host "Personal site does not exist for: " $DisplayName
 $profile.CreatePersonalSite()
               #Adding an extra admin for personel sites               
               $pweb = $profile.PersonalSite.OpenWeb()
               $pweb.AllUsers.Add($personalSiteGlobalAdmin,$personalSiteGlobalAdminNot,$personalSiteGlobalAdminDisplayName,$null);
               $padm= $pweb.AllUsers[$personalSiteGlobalAdmin];
               $padm.IsSiteAdmin = $true;
               $padm.Update();
               $pweb.Dispose();
               write-host "Personal Site Admin has assigned"
}
else
{
write-host "Personal site exists for " $DisplayName
}
}        
$mysite.Dispose();

]]> Event ID 3760 is logged on the server as the timer job is trying to locate a non-existent database https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/allengeorge/event-id-3760-is-logged-on-the-server-as-the-timer-job-is-trying-to-locate-a-non-existent-database Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:17:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/allengeorge/2012/07/10/event-id-3760-is-logged-on-the-server-as-the-timer-job-is-trying-to-locate-a-non-existent-database/ Symptoms

While we access the SharePoint application server, we receive these event ID
error messages in the event viewer

Log Name       :          Application
Source            :        
Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Foundation
Date               :         <Date and Time>
Event ID          :         3760
Task Category :         Database
Level              :         Critical
Keywords       :     
User              :          domain\farmaccount
Computer      :           <Servername>
Description    :
SQL Database 'database_name' on SQL
Server instance 'sql_instance' not found. Additional error information from SQL
Server is included below.
Cannot open database "database_name" requested by the login. The login failed.
Login failed for user 'domain\farmaccount'.

 

Cause

The service application was not removed in the proper format, leaving behind orphan entries for databases.
 

Resolution

Deleted the Orphan Entries using PowerShell
Commands:

Get-SPDatabase | where {$_.name -match "<Name of the Service Database>"} | fl
$db = get-spdatabase | where {$_.id -match "<ID enumerated of the Database from above command>"}
$db.Delete()
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